Constitutional

In a nation where citizens’ national identity is tied to the state-owned oil and natural gas industry, and past high-profile efforts to inject more global private-sector investment have withered, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday proposed opening the nation to more shared private-sector energy investment.

Opposition to Alberta oilsands pipeline plans is spreading and escalating into a constitutional, aboriginal rights challenge against liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the Pacific Coast of British Columbia (BC).

Opposition to Alberta oilsands pipeline plans is spreading and escalating into a constitutional, aboriginal rights challenge against liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the Pacific Coast of British Columbia (BC).

Claims that FERC violated constitutional due process when it approved the New Jersey-New York Expansion Project in May are without merit and should be rejected, said project sponsors Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission (see NGI, May 28).

Claims that FERC violated constitutional due process when it approved the New Jersey-New York Expansion Project in May are without merit and should be rejected, said project sponsors Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission (see Daily GPI, May 23).

Seven Pennsylvania municipalities filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a new state law which gives shale gas-rich counties the ability to impose a 15-year impact fee on unconventional gas wells, claiming that it supersedes local authority over drilling and violates the state and U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a resolution last Thursday directing the city to join a lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) over Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin.